| Council: Don't Bury Terrorists in Indian Cemeteries |
| The Muslim Council of India is telling the nation's cemeteries that the bodies of gunmen killed by commandos in the Mumbai terror siege should not be buried on Indian soil, The Times of India reported Monday. |
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| Israeli Company Provides Muslim Text on the Go |
| For Palestinian Muslims who just can't fit the five-times-a-day Salah prayer routine into their busy schedules, an Israeli mobile phone provider has a new solution: Mobile Koran. |
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| Clinton Gets Top Nod |
| Obama unveils Clinton as pick for sec'y of state; Napolitano gets Homeland Security, Rice to U.N., Holder for AG, Jones as National Security Adviser, Gates stays at Defense | SPEECH• PHOTO ESSAY: Check Out Your New Cabinet | VIDEO• Pentagon to Beef Up Domestic Security• INTERACTIVE: You Choose Obama's Cabinet• Mumbai Attack May Affect U.S. Foreign Policy |
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| Cruise Ship Attacked by Somali Pirates |
| A luxury cruise ship carrying passengers between Rome and Singapore came under attack from Somali pirates as it sailed between Somalia and Yemen on Sunday. |
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| String of Bombings Kill 32 in Iraq |
| A series of bombings struck U.S. and Iraqi security forces in Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul, killing at least 32 people and wounding dozens more, Iraqi officials said. |
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| Scientists Dance Own PhD Subjects in YouTube Sensation |
| Thirty-six different researchs perform interpretive dances of their doctoral dissertations in light-hearted contest. |
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| Estranged Brother-in-Law Arrested in Hudson Slayings |
| Police arrested the estranged brother-in-law of Jennifer Hudson on Monday in the deaths of the entertainer's mother, brother and young nephew, taking him from a prison where he had been held on a suspected parole violation. |
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| Man Shot Dead in Apparent Armed Robbery at Mall |
| A Florida man was shot at a Miami mall during an apparent armed robbery, the Miami Herald reports. |
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| Court Sets Plaxico Burress' Bail at $100,000 |
| Taken to court in handcuffs, Plaxico Burress posted $100,000 bail on weapons possession charges Monday as a frenzy grew around the case of the Giants star receiver who accidentally shot himself in a nightclub. |
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| Attorney: Trampled Wal-Mart Worker Lacked Training |
| Nassau County Police Commissioner Lawrence Mulvey said an autopsy found a Wal-Mart worker died of asphyxiation related to his trampling at a store on Long Island, N.Y. |
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| International Activists Use Facebook To Fight Terrorism |
| Facebook, MySpace and similar Internet sites were created as social networks. Now they are being used to try to change societies. |
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| Star Caught in Act of Gobbling Up Planet |
| Planet discovered slowly falling into dying red giant that's still in process of expanding. |
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| NASCAR Faces a Bumpy Road Ahead |
| Some say that NASCAR could be doomed if the Big Three American automakers go down. |
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| FOXBusiness: Dow Plummets Nearly 700 Points- Bureau of Econ. Research: U.S. in Recession Since '07 |
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| FBI Agents Swarm to Arrest Alabama Mayor |
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| FOX411: 'Reader' Director Targeted for Smear |
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| Pop Tarts: No More Nudity for Kim Kardashian |
| Apologies to the millions of men out there, but Kim Kardashian is done baring her body |
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| The Secret Behind Tina Fey's Facial Scar Revealed! |
| Do you know how Tina got that scar on her left cheek? Her husband's answer might surprise you. |
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| FOXSexpert: Why She Isn't Enjoying Herself With You? |
| She can climax on her own, so why can't she do it with you? |
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| Ivana Divorce! Trump Splits From Hubby After 7-Month Marriag |
| Says they separated three months ago but kept it quiet because he was on 'Survivor' |
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| Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat |
| Called the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement" by the US Congress, Rosa Parks was an African-American civil rights activist who became famous in 1955 for refusing to vacate her seat on a municipal bus for a white man. This act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which launched Martin Luther King, Jr. into prominence and became one of the largest and most successful movements against racial segregation. How many thousands of commuters took part in the boycott? |
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| Skeleton of "Lucy" Discovered |
| "Lucy," a 3.2 million-year-old female hominid of the species Australopithecus afarensis, was discovered by scientists in Ethiopia's Afar Depression. An unprecedented 40% intact, Lucy was the first fossil hominid to really capture public notice. Although she was 3 feet, 8 inches tall and looked somewhat like a chimpanzee, her bipedal knee structure indicates that she walked upright, like a human. What other human skeletal features did she possess? |
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| Japan's Meiji Constitution Goes into Effect |
| The Imperial, or Meiji, Constitution was the fundamental law of the Empire of Japan from 1890 until 1947. Enacted after the Meiji Restoration, it provided for a form of constitutional monarchy based on the Prussian model. The constitution allowed the active Emperor to wield considerable political power, but the control was to be shared with an elected assembly. What did Ito Hirobumi, who was charged with drafting Japan's constitution, think of the different Western constitutions that he reviewed? |
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| sacrilege |
| DEFINITION: (noun) Desecration, profanation, misuse, or theft of something sacred.
SYNONYMS: blasphemy, desecration, profanation.
USAGE: I entreat you, if you be a Christian gentleman, not to kill me, which will be committing grave sacrilege, for I am a licentiate and I hold first orders. |
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| hobgoblin |
| DEFINITION: (noun) An object or a source of fear, dread, or harassment.
SYNONYMS: bugbear.
USAGE: But this encompassment of her own characterization...was a sorry and mistaken creation of Tess's fancy--a cloud of moral hobgoblins by which she was terrified without reason. |
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| stammer |
| DEFINITION: (verb) To speak with involuntary pauses or repetitions.
SYNONYMS: bumble, falter, stutter.
USAGE: "You--you must think me crazy," stammered Anne, trying to recover her self-possession. |
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